Why Does Ryan Serhant Say to Act Like Your Future Self?

"Don't act like the person you used to be. Act like the person you're going to become." Ryan Serhant says that mental shift alone will carry you forward, because the world is attracted to confidence and competence. Be competent while being humbly confident, and people will give you the things you want and the things you ask for. You will do more business, and you will be happier.

The choice is the same as sitting where you can look left and see rain and clouds, or look right and see sunshine. You have to pick every day. The approach worked. He did that TV show for 10 years, then three spinoff shows, and now there is a Netflix show. He started a company. He wakes up, follows his calendar, and goes from there.